Cambridge Health Alliance
Chair of Radiology
The Chair leads clinical service delivery, research, and training within the Department, ensuring high-quality, compassionate, and culturally sensitive patient care. The role also oversees the Department’s clinical quality, academic performance, and financial/operational outcomes in collaboration with CHA leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- • Oversee the provision of all clinical services, quality assurance, patient safety, and performance improvement programs.
- • The role requires a minimum of 40% time dedicated to direct patient care.
- • Direct all teaching, research, and academic activities, including undergraduate and graduate medical education, curriculum development, and provider mentorship.
- • Jointly manage the departmental budget, set financial goals, assess and allocate resources, and develop strategic plans for growth and improved departmental operations and ensure regulatory compliance (e.g., Joint Commission, CMS).
- • Oversee the recruitment, credentialing, orientation, and professional development of providers.
- • Ensure annual performance evaluations and address performance/behavioral issues as needed.
- • Actively participate in CHA leadership, including strategic planning, Chiefs Council, and the Medical Executive Committee, contributing to organizational priorities.
Required
- • Board Certification in Radiology
- • License to practice medicine in the state of Massachusetts (or ability to obtain)
- • 5+ years of clinical experience with progressive leadership experience in multi-site hospital/health system
- • Proven ability in recruitment, professional development, mentoring, medical education program development, practice management, clinical operations, and conflict resolution.
- • Experience fostering medical school education and supporting academic and educational activities at the department level.
- • Exceptional clinical, problem solving and organizational skills
- • Excellent communication skills
- • Dedication to ensuring culturally and linguistically appropriate care
Benefits & Perks
- • Compensation includes a guaranteed base salary of $500,000 - $600,000 plus incentives.
- • Position carries a Harvard Medical School (HMS) appointment of Instructor, Assistant or Associate Professor, commensurate with HMS appointment criteria, candidate qualifications and commitment to teaching responsibilities.
- • The strategic plan prioritizes competitive salaries, benefits and professional development opportunities for employees.
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is recruiting for a Chair of Radiology to join our award-winning health system based in Boston’s metro-north communities. CHA provides innovative primary, specialty and emergency care to our diverse patient population through an established network of outpatient clinics and three hospital campuses. The Chief of Pathology position is full time, based at CHA Cambridge Hospital.
The Chair leads clinical service delivery, research, and training within the Department, ensuring the highest quality, compassionate, and culturally sensitive patient care in alignment with the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) mission. The Chair models CHA values and is responsible for the Department’s overall clinical quality, academic performance, and financial/operational outcomes in collaboration with the Senior Director and CHA leadership.
Duties And Responsibilities
Compensation includes a guaranteed base salary of $500,000 - $600,000 plus incentives.
Qualifications
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.
Cambridge Health Alliance brings Care to the People - including your neighbors, friends and family. Our local hospitals and care centers serve our vibrant, diverse communities, and play an integral role in improving health. As passionate advocates for the underserved, we actively partner with our communities to take on challenging public health issues, and conduct important research to help reduce barriers to care. We believe that everyone deserves access to high quality, convenient health care. This is why our employees believe in where they work and why many build long, rewarding careers at CHA.
Healthcare is changing rapidly. CHA has a strategic plan that charts a proactive course for our future. It is built on a vision of equity and excellence for everyone, every time. It also recognizes that our workforce is our most valuable asset and prioritizes competitive salaries, benefits and professional development opportunities for employees. The strategic plan is changing the way we provide care and improving the health and experience of our patients; we are looking for smart, committed, compassionate people who want to be part of making our vision of better health and equity a reality.
At CHA, you can believe in where you work and go home every day knowing you made a difference. Join our team and help us bring Care to the People.
The Chair leads clinical service delivery, research, and training within the Department, ensuring the highest quality, compassionate, and culturally sensitive patient care in alignment with the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) mission. The Chair models CHA values and is responsible for the Department’s overall clinical quality, academic performance, and financial/operational outcomes in collaboration with the Senior Director and CHA leadership.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Clinical and Quality Oversight: Oversee the provision of all clinical services, quality assurance, patient safety, and performance improvement programs. The role requires a minimum of 40% time dedicated to direct patient care.
- Academic Leadership: Direct all teaching, research, and academic activities, including undergraduate and graduate medical education, curriculum development, and provider mentorship.
- Administration and Finance: Jointly manage the departmental budget, set financial goals, assess and allocate resources, and develop strategic plans for growth and improved departmental operations and ensure regulatory compliance (e.g., Joint Commission, CMS)
- Personnel Management: Oversee the recruitment, credentialing, orientation, and professional development of providers. Ensure annual performance evaluations and address performance/behavioral issues as needed.
- Institutional Leadership: Actively participate in CHA leadership, including strategic planning, Chiefs Council, and the Medical Executive Committee, contributing to organizational priorities.
Compensation includes a guaranteed base salary of $500,000 - $600,000 plus incentives.
Qualifications
- Board Certification in Radiology
- License to practice medicine in the state of Massachusetts (or ability to obtain)
- 5+ years of clinical experience with progressive leadership experience in multi-site hospital/health system
- Proven ability in recruitment, professional development, mentoring, medical education program development, practice management, clinical operations, and conflict resolution.
- Experience fostering medical school education and supporting academic and educational activities at the department level.
- Exceptional clinical, problem solving and organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Dedication to ensuring culturally and linguistically appropriate care
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.
Cambridge Health Alliance brings Care to the People - including your neighbors, friends and family. Our local hospitals and care centers serve our vibrant, diverse communities, and play an integral role in improving health. As passionate advocates for the underserved, we actively partner with our communities to take on challenging public health issues, and conduct important research to help reduce barriers to care. We believe that everyone deserves access to high quality, convenient health care. This is why our employees believe in where they work and why many build long, rewarding careers at CHA.
Healthcare is changing rapidly. CHA has a strategic plan that charts a proactive course for our future. It is built on a vision of equity and excellence for everyone, every time. It also recognizes that our workforce is our most valuable asset and prioritizes competitive salaries, benefits and professional development opportunities for employees. The strategic plan is changing the way we provide care and improving the health and experience of our patients; we are looking for smart, committed, compassionate people who want to be part of making our vision of better health and equity a reality.
At CHA, you can believe in where you work and go home every day knowing you made a difference. Join our team and help us bring Care to the People.
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